"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers." ― Nathaniel Hawthorne Topic(s): Society More From Nathaniel Hawthorne "Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." "Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not." "A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you’ve scowled upon." More In Society "Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it’s also in the system, the society."― James Hillman "Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture."― Amos Bronson Alcott "There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."― Constance Baker Motley